Cruise ship crew members accused of cocaine smuggling

Two crew members of the Allure of the Seas were arrested and accused of smuggling cocaine when their cruise ship docked at Port Everglades on Sunday.

The men were stopped during a routine crew inspection as they attempted to disembark the Allure of the Seas about 2 p.m. The cruise ship had just returned from scheduled stops in Haiti, Jamaica and Mexico, according to Special Agent Shawn Stone with the Department of Homeland Security's investigation division.

When one of the men put a backpack into the X-ray scanner, inspectors noticed something. Both of the men removed various electronics and a wallet from the backpack and then told security agents the backpack did not belong to them, according to the investigative report.

Broward Sheriff's Office deputies and Customs and Border Protection officers were called in to inspect the backpack. A police dog alerted to something in the backpack which was then field-tested. The substance inside tested positive for cocaine, the report stated.

Both men were detained and questioned before being arrested and charged with trafficking more than a kilo of cocaine.